League Cup
Anfield Banter: Paul Anderson scores in debut, McClown approaches Carra again, & Benitez warns agents
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* Apparently Paul Anderson scored an impressive goal in his official debut for Swansea. As described in the link: “the young sensation showed his Premiership potential with a fantastic half-volley which flew inside Clayton Ince’s right-hand post.” The Swans defeated Walsall 2-0 in the opening round of the League cup with Anderson scoring the [...]
Category: Chelsea, England, Jamie Carragher, LFC, League Cup, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Manchester United, Paul Anderson, Players Out On Loan, Rafa Benitez, Steve McClaren
Tags: Chelsea, England, Jamie Carragher, Jose Mourinho, League Cup, LFC, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Manchester United, Paul Anderson, Paul Tomkins, Players Out On Loan, Rafa Benitez, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sol Campbell, Steve McClaren, Swans, Swansea City, Walsall, Wes BrownAnfield Banter: Jimmy Ryan loaned, Kewell injured, Essien out, Pennant to get rest, some Crouch crap, & tears for Gareth Barry
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* Jimmy Ryan will be joining Shrewsbury Town for a month long loan effective immediately. The 18-year-old, two-time FA Youth Cup winning midfielder could play as early as today as the Shrews get set to take on Colchester United in the opening round of the League Cup. He apparently impressed Shrewsbury boss Gary [...]
Category: Alvaro Arbeloa, Aston Villa, Chelsea, EPL, Harry Kewell, Javier Mascherano, Jermaine Pennant, LFC, League Cup, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Peter Crouch, Player News, Players Out On Loan, Rafa Benitez, Steven Gerrard, Team News, Yossi Benayoun Tags: Alvaro Arbeloa, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Colchester United, EPL, FA Youth Cup, Gareth Barry, Gary Peters, Harry Kewell, Javier Mascherano, Jermaine Pennant, Jimmy Ryan, League Cup, LFC, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Peter Crouch, Player News, Players Out On Loan, Rafa Benitez, Shrewsbury Town, Steven Gerrard, Team News, Yossi BenayounThe Daily Diatribe: Kewell, Harry, just Kewell, Rafa eyeing Arizmendi & Billy Sharp, Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money, & Pongolle can go to Huelva!
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* There’s been a lot of Harry Kewell talk in the last few days. That usually equates to a lot of nothing, but it’s always fun to speculate about King Harry. Apparently, he plans to be back in action sometime next month. Good to hear he wants to play for the team [...]
Sadness … Just utter, total sadness
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There’s not much to say about losing 6-3 to Arsenal in the Carling Cup. Being unable to watch the match from Milwaukee, I was forced to settle for the papers’ accounts, which, not surprisingly, were unkind to Liverpool. Liverpool Offside is taking a couple days for a short, personal vacation to Chicago to see a [...]
I promise you I will call you Cudicini
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The Liverpool team Web site has revealed Rafa Benitez promised Jerzy Dudek – at the start of the season – that the Polish keeper would start all the FA Cup and Carling Cup matches this season. What an honorable thing to do, Rafa, stealing a page from Mourinho’s playbook and starting the number two keeper in [...]
Tags: Carling Cup, Carlo Cudicini, FA Cup, Fixtures, Jerzy Dudek, League Cup, Rafa Benitez, Team NewsReally? On account of fog?
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At work, I’m known as “the soccer guy,” since it’s a fairly small office and everyone knows everyone else’s business, for the most part. One criticism some of the hard-headed types like to level against me is that “soccer” is a sport for sissies. It’s never bugged me because I know better.
However, I hope my [...]
Fight them to the death
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The aftershocks from a hearty Festivus celebration Friday night kept me from getting up in time to see the Charlton match – not a proud admission, but true – so let’s dig into Rafa’s decision to field a mostly full-strength lineup against Arsenal tonight in the Carling Cup.
Hey, why not? It’s always nice to win, [...]
Damn League Cup crap
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Sissoko broke his arm in the first half against Birmingham. There was a 7-minute delay and he was tended to by team doctors from both Liverpool and Birmingham. They took him off on a stretcher, so that must be one seriously broken arm.
Dammit. The guy’s a tackling, disruptive monster that was really needed for Arsenal [...]
Mano a mano with the Arsenal
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The official No. 1 scribe of this here Web site, Chris Bascombe, gets the nut of it right about Arsenal this weekend. Here’s an excerpt:
“That said, Benitez will recognise it’s the trip to the Emirates, not the last four games, which will truly determine if his side has turned the corner into an open road [...]
‘You bring ‘God’ back into the team, and you’re guaranteed a goal’
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The words above belong to Steve Hunter, spoken shortly after the halftime whistle of Liverpool’s 4-3 win over Reading on Wednesday in the League Cup. With no telecast in the U.S. of this match, I plopped the laptop on the kitchen table Wednesday afternoon as I prepared my dinner for work last night.
There’s something about [...]
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